SWGfL is a not for profit charity ensuring everyone can benefit from technology free from harm. Forming 1/3 of the UK Safer Internet Centre, our experts advise schools, public bodies and industry on appropriate actions to take in regards to safeguarding and advancing positive online safety policies.
SWGfL has been at the forefront of online safety for the past two decades, delivering engaging presentations and training to a wide variety of audiences nationally and internationally. Our work has brought online safety to the forefront of public attention, ensuring everyone can develop their understanding of what online safety truly means in an ever changing world.
Helplines & Services
We host support services and helplines that offer free advice, support and guidance to victims of online harm. These include:
Products & Resources
Our award-winning online safety review tool 360 Safe 
has been actively used by over 15,000 schools throughout the UK. The child friendly search engine Swiggle has also amassed over 1,000,000 users whilst being a favourite for classrooms and home computers.
Part of our ongoing work involves delivering accessible information that is relevant and keeps up-to-date on the latest trends. Our Social Media Checklists offer guidance on how to actively manage the world’s most popular apps whilst highlighting safety features and parental controls. These include Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, Yubo and Netflix.
Our award-winning digital education toolkit Project Evolve provides organisations with free resources, activities and teaching plans for a wealth of topics related to young people's online development. Covering a wide range of age groups and objectives, Project Evolve develops curriculum whilst giving you the freedom to explore, however you see fit.
SWGfL are always here to offer advice and guidance when it comes to online safety. To learn more, please contact us
Management Team
David is CEO at SWGfL and also Director UK Safer Internet Centre; the national awareness centre and part of the European Insafe network. David has worked extensively in online safety for 20 years with children, schools and wider agencies. He advises a number of Governments, organisations and industry partners on online safety strategy and policy and has been appointed as an expert child online protection adviser to the UN ITU and nominated by UK Government as an expert to the Council of Europe Tech Facilitated Gender Based Violence committee
David has presented at conferences nationally and internationally. He is a member of UK Council for Internet Safety and has recently been invited to be a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Coalition for Digital Safety.
David has led the creation of a number of Helplines that directly and indirectly support victims of online harm, perhaps most notably the Revenge Porn Helpline in 2015 that supports adults who are victims of non consensual intimate image (NCII) abuse. Consequentially, David has overseen the development of StopNCII, the worlds first device side hashing technology that empowers adults who experience NCII to prevent their images being shared online
David has led pioneering work, such as the development of multi award winning resources, and with Plymouth University, he has published a number of ground-breaking research reports.
Ken Corish, Online Safety Manager
Ken is Deputy CEO and Online Safety Director at SWGfL. He draws on twenty years as a teacher and school leader and ten years as a School Improvement Adviser with Plymouth’s ICT Team.
Ken’s broad canvas of experience has seen him work with a wide range of agencies including the UK government and the European Commission. Ken regularly speaks at conferences around the world. He has been involved in developing multiple resources, frameworks and tools to increase the wellbeing and safety of children and young people when they are online including the multi-award winning 360 Degree Safe online safety self-review tool, the BOOST toolset for children’s settings, and the SEL tools SELMA and ENABLE. His latest work is ProjectEVOLVE, an innovative set of free resources and knowledge mapping to support young people’s online lives, used by 15,500 schools and 70,000 educators in the UK and around the world.
Claire Hayden - Head of Customer Services
Claire is the Head of Customer Services for SWGfL and has been an invaluable part of the business for over 7 years, having over 30 years’ experience of providing excellent customer service, including 20 years of highly competent management experience supported with a Level 5 Management Diploma and Credit Services Association Diploma.
Her work has tremendous positive impact on the charity especially with successfully managing contracts in excess of £4.8 million and even more importantly, supporting our staff as a Mental Health First Aider.
Claire has a passion for online safety and works as an expert, supporting Safeguarding Leads countrywide in assisting with monitoring and managing student online behaviour with our incredibly successful AMS service.
Sophie Slee - Head of HR and Business Operations
Sophie is the Head of HR and Business Operations and has been an instrumental part of the team for nearly seven years. With more than a decade of experience in HR, she holds an Associate level CIPD and BA Honours Degree.
Sophie has been leading, and expertly developing various teams for twelve years. Her contribution to SWGfL has seen her attracting much needed income for the charity in excess of £1.5 million.
Martin Martin Kenneally - Head of Finance and Internal Service
Martin is the Head of Finance and Internal Services, having joined SWGfL in August 2021.
Drawing upon experience within practice and audit prior to his move to industry, Martin is responsible for the statutory compliance at SWGfL alongside ensuring effective, financial management and the oversight of both project management and web functions for the Trust.
During his time Martin has overseen the improvement of process and procedures leading to more efficient and effective ways of working, along with more robust controls.
Boris Radanovic - Head of Engagements and Partnerships
Boris is proficient in the field of online safety, and he has been working with the European Commission on expert missions to Belarus, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia to present the topic of online safety to government officials, NGO’s and stakeholders. He is also a former member of the Trust and Safety board at Twitter and has advised governments on creating and adopting online child safety policies and best practices under the auspices of ITU Europe.
Boris is a member of the Ad hoc Awareness raising group of ENISA, Chair of the IEEE 7004 Standards for Child and Student Data Governance and has delivered hundreds of presentations on the topic of online safety to various stakeholders. Boris will be working to further the engagement of SWGfL with its various audiences and building long lasting supporting partnerships.
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